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January’s news highlights ranged from research on bay scallops to an essay on the importance of foreign language study. Links are provided, but some may require subscriptions to access content.

A recent podcast interview with Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily Harrison is available on the American Theatre magazine website.

One of Hamilton College’s most generous benefactors and a leading businessman and philanthropist in the Utica community has died. F. Eugene Romano, a Utica native and a 1949 Hamilton graduate, passed away on Saturday, Jan.7. He was 94.

Reaching for the sky, Tracey Stroock McFarland ’90 recently floated a turn as an actress to lead producer with The Kite Runner on Broadway. The play, an adaptation of the bestselling 2003 novel about atonement for a childhood betrayal between friends in Afghanistan, played a limited run on the Great White Way last summer.

Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell directs Hamilton College students in Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s play about political discord, morality, authenticity, and a woman’s right to control her body, a topic that continues to resonate today.

There are many performances that Jonathan Higginbotham ’12 remembers fondly, but he’ll never forget one particular night at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

Hamilton welcomes 48 new faculty members, including nine new tenure-track, in addition to visiting professors, lecturers, and teaching fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. The College is in the midst of a 10-year period, begun in 2015, during which nearly half of its faculty will reach average retirement age.

Aaron Simons ’22 shares what it was like to direct his mentor and former theatre professor Mark Cryer in a one-man play about Thurgood Marshall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland in early August.

The existential themes of love, death, and time were explored in the AI-scripted and human-performed musical production Channelers, an interdisciplinary art project funded by the Dietrich Inchworm Grant and headed by Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Anna Huff.

President David Wippman recently announced the appointment of seven Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.